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If we don't learn it now by doing so today human betrays mankind.
"We have to achieve our full humanity while on earth. If we fail in this, we betray ourselves and in the life after death plunge further down into the subhuman."
We must learn to be really human, that we may not experience the scandal of being less in the world-order than the animals—despite the Gods having determined us for higher things.
The part of humanity that is lagging behind in human development will continue its development in the second cosmic wave of life, when the current animal races enters the human development phase. This is a dangerous development phase, because the self-awareness of the soul and the nwe ego is its consequence. Man will turn either to good or to evil, there is no intermediate form to choose from.
However:
In ancient days things could be left undone - but today destruction follows, said Steiner on 2 February 1923: Lecture Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience.
Then, not to become a candidate for life was an omission. Today a man destroys, through his own humanity, something in the whole human race if he does not strive after full humanity in his own life.
"Thus we must grasp the need to place ourselves consciously in the world on a higher Level of being, as the insect does instinctively, on a lower Level, in its world. "
Otherwise man delivers himself up to chaos, which the animal instinctively does not do.
The animals do not neglect their part in the cosmic harmony, yet we as mankind turn the cosmic harmony into dissonance.
"And thus, I may say, we shall heap upon ourselves cosmic scandal, if we do not learn to think in this way and make our consciousness accord with the demands of the age."
This we must learn in these days to join our feeling to our intellectual life.
We must take in what would follow upon our not striving after that knowledge which makes us fully man. "It would be a scandal before the Gods themselves."
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